Books - Families

• Martin Stewart
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141362038
• Published: 28-04-2016

Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is dreading taking up his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters. But then everything changes. One night his father is possessed by a dark spirit, and Wull hears that a cure lurks deep within the great sea-beast...

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• Isabel Minhos Martins, Yara Kono
• Thames & Hudson Ltd
• ISBN13: 9780500650776
• Published: 25-04-2016

Some children fight sleep with all their might. And we can see why - it is so exciting to be awake! But nobody can live without sleep, which is why we've created this bedtime ABC, a book with the power to have everyone nodding off long before the alphabet ends. It never fails. Some people begi...

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• Claudia Martin
• QED Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781784934538
• Published: 21-04-2016

Few things have such a profound effect on our everyday lives as the weather. Weather conditions decide whether we go out or stay in, and even what we need to wear, but for enquiring young minds, there are far more exciting things going on in our atmosphere than an occasional shower of rain. Li...

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• M.M. Vaughan
• Alma Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781846883958
• Published: 21-04-2016

When Parker Banks moves with his family from London to New York, he struggles to adapt to his new school and environment. His scientist dad is constantly at work on a top-secret technological venture for a major corporation, when one day he is kidnapped. It is up to Parker, along with his deaf...

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• Enid Blyton
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444929874
• Published: 07-04-2016

For new girl Darrell Rivers, there are friends to be made, pranks to be played and fun to be had at Malory Towers in Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding school series. In book one, new girl Darrell is two terms behind her classmates and feels out of place and alone.Soon, however, Da...

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• Greg Gormley, Steven Lenton
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781408333853
• Published: 07-04-2016

Beneath this glitter-tastic cover is a page-turning hide-and-seek adventure full of favourite fairytale characters from princesses to unicorns to knights, with a magically funny and reassuring twist at the end. Fairytale Frankie is a fearless tomboy who wakes up one morning to find a princess...

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• Laurence Anholt
• Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781847808165
• Published: 07-04-2016

Part of the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, which tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. Zoro is the young pupil of the amazing painter, sculptor, scientist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Every day he wo...

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• Laurence Anholt
• Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781847808134
• Published: 07-04-2016

Part of the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, which tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. When Julie's dog disappears into a mysterious garden, Julie follows him - and finds herself in a beautiful garden-wi...

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